Websphere for free
Wednesday 16 November 2005 @ 5:50 pm
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Indeed, IBM has released a free application server. They took Geronimo, branded it as Websphere and hope they can sell support services with it. Seems like a good deal? Might be. In case you’re not in the position to buy a way to expensive product like the real Websphere but you need an app server with support, WAS-CE might be the thing you’re looking for. Of course you can also use JBoss and trust on the support the open source community is giving you for free :-)

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The ever growing list of frameworks
Wednesday 16 November 2005 @ 5:14 pm
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Via Matt Raibles weblog I found Simon Browns blog and this guy gave himself the impossible mission to compare the whole bunch of presentation frameworks that are currently available through the open source community. Colleague Rob de Jong already asked the question which framework to use and which not. Maybe Simon’s journey will useful answering this question but when looking at the ever growing list of frameworks, I’m more interested in the real drive behind these frameworks.

For example, I took a look at Mentawai (I won’t comment the name, promised :-) ). Not mentioned in Simon’s list but plugged into the comments section of his announcement blog. Beautiful, look ma, no XML! Completely in the style of better and lighter. But, except for the configuration approach, what does it better or faster or lighter than any other framework out there? No idea.

Another example, Stripes. Never heard of it and a quick walk through the wiki documentation showed me this framework also has some original approaches not found in other frameworks. Again, look ma, no XML! This time we have to deal with annotations hell. Okay, fine, don’t like it but can live with it. But still, I can not see a reason to select this particular framework for the applications I want to build.

Maybe, and simon’s journey might be useful, somewhere in the future my opinion will change and I will actually use or even promote these frameworks, but right now I can only conclude they are primary written to fill a gap in someone’s spare time and won’t help me finding a way to speed up development.

Personally, when looking at development speed (the number of hours a developer need to spend to get something done), I do not believe in frameworks solving trival issues like request dispatching or mark-up generation. I think we need to look at frameworks who do it all (maybe supported by frameworks focused on elementary aspects like O/R mapping, security or logging). And with all I realy mean all. The complete application. Top to bottom. The full monty. Like Rails for Ruby. Yep, I took a look at Trails and Grails and somehow both frameworks could not convince me: I do not care someone is ripping a great idea but at least rip the good things and do not introduce bad ideas like annotations (Trails is using them where Rails simply uses naming conventions (in combination with a very dynamic language :-) ) or an impossible code-deploy-test cycle (Testing Grails applications feels like waiting on a bus, step in, step out and wait for the next one). I wonder, is it me? do I miss the point? Or is it really true I’m looking for something that does not and will never exist in our world?

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